Leonid Panteleev, Grigory Belykh: Republic of Shkid. House of merry beggars

The 1920s of the 20th century are the heyday of our new literature.
Cavalry by Babel; "Don Stories" and the first parts of "The Quiet Don" by Sholokhov, stories by Zoshchenko, a dilogy about Ostap Bender by Ilf and Petrov, novellas and stories by Platonov and Bulgakov, "We" by Zamyatin, "Walking through the torments" by Alexei Tolstoy ... The list can be multiplied and multiplied.
In this glorious series, the story of Belykh and Panteleev "The Republic of Shkid" occupies a worthy place. This is surprising, because almost children composed it, yesterday's Leningrad punks, former homeless children. The story is written so cheerfully, cockily, frankly, that it fell exactly into the top ten of the reader's captious heart. Yes, and now it does.
The film by Gennady Poloka with the brilliant Sergei Yursky as Vikniksor, the founder of Shkida and the wise guide of the people of Shkida, cemented the fame of the book, which was not published from 1938 to 1960 due to tragic circumstances. The reason for such a long oblivion is simple: Grigory Belykh, co-author of Leonid Panteleev, was repressed and died in 1938 in a prison hospital.
In this edition, we offer you the maximum immersion in the Shkid theme in the work of Grigory Belykh and Leonid Panteleev, both individually and jointly. The book contains almost everything that is related to the glorious times of the famous republic, which gave the world works that adorned our literature.

Authors: Leonid Panteleev , Grigory Belykh

Pages: 736 (offset). Hard cover

Dimensions: 140x210 mm